Mortgaging the ancestors
Subtitle: ideologies of attachment in Africa
By: Parker Shipton.
Series: Yale agrarian studies series
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780300116021
Subjects: Land tenure -- Africa; Mortgages -- Social aspects -- Africa; Economic anthropology -- Africa; Economics -- Sociological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Sand and gold: some property history and theory; title: Luo and others: migration, settlement, ethnicity; title: An earthly anchorage: graves and the grounding of belonging; title: Birthright and its borrowing: inheritance and land clientage under pressure; title: The thin end: land and credit in the colonial period; title: The ghost market: land titling and mortgaging after independence; title: Nothing more serious: mortgaging and struggles over ancestral land; title: Bigger than law: land and constitutionalism; title: Conclusion: property, improperty, and the mortgage.